/**
 * Copyright (C) 2010 Cloudfarming <info@cloudfarming.nl>
 *
 * Licensed under the Eclipse Public License - v 1.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *         http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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 */

package nl.cloudfarming.sensor;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;

/**
 * A Parser can parse pieces of sensor information into a {@link ParsedUnit}
 *
 * @param T the type of the message that can be Parsed
 * @author Timon Veenstra
 */
public interface Parser<T extends Object> {

    ParsedUnit parse(T payload) throws ParseException , NoSuchAlgorithmException, IOException, FileReadException;

    boolean ableToParse(T payload) throws AlreadyParsedException, FileNotFoundException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, IOException;

}
